As 40,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Chicago in less than two years, a Tribune analysis of crime data shows the impact of migrants has been mostly felt in nonviolent offenses, particularly driving-related and thefts, and few arrests for violent felonies.
Volunteers who have been providing care packages and assisting migrants off of buses and onto trains at Wilmette’s Metra Station urged the Wilmette Village Board to not follow neighboring communities by adopting a busing ordinance during Wednesday night’s meeting. Despite concerns, trustees voted unanimously to limit unscheduled bus drop-offs to weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Village Manager Michael Braiman, who told Pioneer Press in early January the village had no plans to move forward with busing ordinances, said increased late-night drop-offs have begun to cause concern. According to the village, 68 buses with approximately 2,700 people have arrived […]
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A Pullman group opened up the home of Italian immigrant Americo L. Lisciotto, who led an effort to keep Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood from being bulldozed as part of a 1960s industrial redevelopment project.
Yenedy Reys-Pardo had just started attending Eisenhower High School after her family arrived in Blue Island from Colombia seeking asylum when her new friend had a seizure in the swimming pool. Her help may have prevented tragedy.
The city and state are in the planning stages to combine Chicago’s legacy homeless shelter system with its system for migrants and turn it into a unified shelter structure that advocates for the homeless have long championed.
Their passage gives Johnson much-needed money to continue the daily churn of migrant caretaking while adding a sprawling pool of cash to spend on housing, job growth and cultural projects.
The speed with which migrant funds were marshaled has stirred widespread resentment among Black Chicagoans. But community leaders are trying to ease racial tensions.
Chicago Mayor Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker have yet to detail plans if three’s an influx of migrants sent to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention.
The funding represents the majority of the $100 million Board President Toni Preckwinkle dedicated in her $9.6 billion 2024 budget to the county’s Disaster Response and Recovery Fund.